We're excited to collaborate once more with HIMSS for their Global Health Conference & Exhibition! Come find us in the Exhibition Hall at booth #138 where we're hosting three full days of informative sessions led by some of the industry's best subject matter experts.
HL7 Members receive a discount off their conference registration!
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Hooks is a Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) specification managed by the HL7 Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Workgroup that provides a way to embed additional, near real-time functionality within a clinician's workflow of an EHR.
We will explore the use cases and scenarios, the technical concepts, and see a live demonstration of how it works. We will also explore some examples of specifications incorporating CDS-Hooks as one of the components.
HL7 has a rich and robust program for reducing clinical burden. With the addition of access to the CPT coding system, the AMA has increased the ease with which clinicians can deliver care.
This session will be an interactive panel presentation and discussion highlighting how HL7 FHIR is being implemented in today’s healthcare technology solutions. Each presenter will provide a brief overview of how they are currently implementing HL7 FHIR and will then take questions from the audience during a FHIRside chat.
Managing Postpartum Hypertension with Rimidi’s FHIR-enabled Cardiometabolic Management Platform
As a safety-net hospital, many of the patients Boston Medical Center serves are underinsured and have social determinants that impact their healthcare. Nearly 30% of the pregnancies at BMC are considered high-risk for postpartum hypertension. Monitoring blood pressure through traditional office visits is challenging due to barriers to accessing care that disproportionately affect people of color and the patient population BMC serves. BMC turned to Rimidi to remotely monitor blood pressure for this group of patients with easy-to-use cellular-enabled blood pressure cuffs. As a SMART-on-FHIR clinical management platform, Rimidi launches within BMC’s Epic EHR and allows the nursing team to assess individual
and population severe postpartum hypertension and prioritize interventions while helping reduce disparities for this patient population – all within their existing Epic workflow. In this session, we’ll highlight some key results of the ongoing postpartum management program.
Getting FHIRd up about the treatment of atrial fibrillation: How a FHIR-connected clinical decision support tool facilitates high-quality, patient-centered management of stroke risk in atrial fibrillation
Management of stroke risk in people with atrial fibrillation is complex, and burgeoning literature and lengthy clinical practice guidelines make it impossible for clinicians to keep up. DynaMed Decisions has developed and refined technical and editorial processes that offer best-in-class evidence and guideline curation, appraisal, synthesis, and maintenance of currency in a way that seamlessly integrates into clinician workflows by leveraging FHIR to prepopulate data inputs. This is showcased by the tool Atrial Fibrillation Treatment Options to Lower Stroke Risk, which supports high-quality, patient-centered care by providing personalized risk profiles, clinical guidance, and visual displays of the benefits and harms of treatment options for each patient for whom the clinician uses the tool. The tool targets patient-centered outcomes and keeps clinicians current, all while keeping clinicians’ and patients’ needs and desires at the forefront of the tool experience.
A Discussion of Providers’ FHIR Implementation Progress Leveraging the HL7 Da Vinci Project
Learn about the journey of two provider members of the HL7 Da Vinci Project, Providence, and UC Davis Health. Learn how they are using FHIR and the Implementation Guides to solve problems, streamline their workflow, and improve data exchange. They will also discuss their challenges, learnings, and progress.
With the issuance of the new federal prior authorization and attachments rule proposals, the innovative interoperability work advanced by the HL7 Da Vinci Project is once again being recognized as a path forward for game-changing industry transformation that will reduce burden, increase automation and improve care. Join us and hear an overview of the Implementation Guides that are suggested in the proposed rules and how they meet the rules’ objectives. You will learn how to access the resources, participate in community feedback and start getting involved.
Get your FHIR and other HL7 questions answered by members of the HL7 Leadership Team.
FAST Accelerator Panel featuring FAST, Gravity, Helios & Da Vinci where leaders will share updates on each of their accelerators and speak about the work of the accelerator community. Charles Jaffee, MD, Ph.D., CEO of HL7, will moderate the discussion.
This session will cover the overall progress of the HL7 FHIR project including the standard, the community, significant implementation projects in the United States and around the world, and regulatory adoption issues. FHIR R5 contains thousands of incremental updates, corrections, and enhancements that improve the overall quality and capability of the standard and represent the collective progress and implementation experience of the HL7 community. With FHIR R5, HL7 continues to support the development of innovative healthcare applications that can improve patient care and outcomes.
We will review the projects that the Patient Empowerment Work Group is sponsoring to create awareness for the attendees of how we are working to identify and define requirements for standards that enable individuals and caregivers to identify their personal needs, requirements and preferences for health information data exchange and accessibility.
Learn about how the HL7 Vulcan Accelerator connects clinical care and clinical research through FHIR.
Vulcan members Dr. Qi Li, Physician Executive, InterSystems, and Mayur Saxena, CEO and co-founder, Droice Labs, will provide an overview of Vulcan and share challenges and opportunities in utilizing Real World Data for clinical care and research. Clinical use cases where the Vulcan implementation guides can streamline study design, multi-site collaboration, and real-world evidence development will be explored. With Vulcan, research institutions and life science partners can achieve efficiency and accelerate knowledge development.
Come learn more about how The Consumer Directed Payer Data Exchange (CARIN IG for Blue Button®) - which includes more than 240 claim data elements agreed on by multiple regional and national health plans - is helping to better assist health plans implement the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access proposed rule.
Project Gemini is a joint initiative of HL7 and IHE to advance interoperability. The goal of Project Gemini is to identify and pursue pilot projects that focus on the people, resources, and processes of both organizations to accelerate the implementation of FHIR to address high-value use cases. In this session, you’ll hear about the collaboration, current projects, and how to get involved, as well as a feature presentation about the successful collaboration and future plans in Service-oriented Device Point-of-care Interoperability (SDPi).
Representatives of Argonaut, CARIN, CodeX, and the Da Vinci Project discuss their use case progress, resources, and how to engage in their work. The discussion will be moderated by Charles Jaffe, MD, Ph.D. - CEO of HL7 International.
The International Patient Summary (IPS) is a standard for sharing essential health
information developed through a cross standards development organizations (SDOs)
initiative and supported by global programs for digital health, such as the Global Digital
Health Partnership (GDHP). The IPS is one of the first Fast Healthcare Interoperability
Resources (FHIR) document standards and establishes how structured data can be shared
worldwide using controlled vocabularies and terminologies.
Race and ethnicity are important data elements to facilitate progress toward health equity goals. Recognizing this, a wide range of regulatory, policy, and quality improvement use cases have been identified for the collection and use of these data, but misaligned approaches present challenges to action. In this rapidly evolving environment, many organizations lack awareness of or struggle to apply, available standards when collecting and exchanging these data. In this presentation, speakers will discuss current the importance of standardized data collection and management for these data, reveal some of the challenges and highlight key opportunities where HL7 can help.
In this session, speakers will explain the scope and purpose of HL7's Certification program. The speakers will discuss the steps to certification and the HL7 courses that will help in the preparation for these exams. Participants will also hear about the credentialing program to be launched by HL7 next year.
The Helios HL7 FHIR Accelerator is an alliance of government, private sector, and philanthropic partners that are committed to the equitable and effective use of data for the advancement of public health. This session will provide updates on the progress Helios members have made to date in three priority areas: making data in immunization information systems available via BulkFHIR, accessing situational awareness data during emergencies via FHIR, and assessing optimal ways for public health to access data in EHRs via FHIR.
Join us to learn more about the Gravity Project, a leading multidisciplinary community that has successfully introduced a nationally recognized set of open data standards-based terminologies to support care across 17 social risk domains and a FHIR Implementation Guide that incorporates social risk screening and closed-loop referral
management.
This session will cover the overall progress of the HL7 FHIR project including the standard, the community, significant implementation projects in the United States and around the world, and regulatory adoption issues. FHIR R5 contains thousands of incremental updates, corrections, and enhancements that improve the overall quality and capability of the standard and represent the collective progress and implementation experience of the HL7 community. With FHIR R5, HL7 continues to support the development of innovative healthcare applications that can improve patient care and outcomes.
FHIR for Populations: Understanding the FHIR Bulk Data API Certification Criteria and Uses (also including CMS use in Medicare Fee-For-Service claims data under the Data at the Point of Care pilot project and Beneficiary Claims Data API). We will review the base specification and the uses.
This session will be an interactive panel presentation and discussion highlighting how HL7 FHIR is being implemented in today’s healthcare technology solutions. Each presenter will provide a brief overview of how they are currently implementing HL7 FHIR and will then take questions from the audience during a FHIRside chat.
Managing Postpartum Hypertension with Rimidi’s FHIR-enabled Cardiometabolic Management Platform
As a safety-net hospital, many of the patients Boston Medical Center serves are underinsured and have social determinants that impact their healthcare. Nearly 30% of the pregnancies at BMC are considered high-risk for postpartum hypertension. Monitoring blood pressure through traditional office visits is challenging due to barriers to accessing care that disproportionately affect people of color and the patient population BMC serves. BMC turned to Rimidi to remotely monitor blood pressure for this group of patients with easy-to-use cellular-enabled blood pressure cuffs. As a SMART-on-FHIR clinical management platform, Rimidi launches within BMC’s Epic EHR and allows the nursing team to assess individual
and population severe postpartum hypertension and prioritize interventions while helping reduce disparities for this patient population – all within their existing Epic workflow. In this session, we’ll highlight some key results of the ongoing postpartum management program.
Getting FHIRd up about the treatment of atrial fibrillation: How a FHIR-connected clinical decision support tool facilitates high-quality, patient-centered management of stroke risk in atrial fibrillation
Management of stroke risk in people with atrial fibrillation is complex, and burgeoning literature and lengthy clinical practice guidelines make it impossible for clinicians to keep up. DynaMed Decisions has developed and refined technical and editorial processes that offer best-in-class evidence and guideline curation, appraisal, synthesis, and maintenance of currency in a way that seamlessly integrates into clinician workflows by leveraging FHIR to prepopulate data inputs. This is showcased by the tool Atrial Fibrillation Treatment Options to Lower Stroke Risk, which supports high-quality, patient-centered care by providing personalized risk profiles, clinical guidance, and visual displays of the benefits and harms of treatment options for each patient for whom the clinician uses the tool. The tool targets patient-centered outcomes and keeps clinicians current, all while keeping clinicians’ and patients’ needs and desires at the forefront of the tool experience.
FHIR Implementation Progress Leveraging the HL7 Da Vinci Project
Learn about the real-world story of MultiCare Connected Care, an HL7 Da Vinci Project member, and learn how MultiCare is using FHIR and the Implementation Guides to solve problems, streamline workflow and improve data exchange. For example, MultiCare implemented Da Vinci’s member attribution use case, which resulted in a 10% improvement in patient matching. This benefit helped MultiCare further improve patient safety by ensuring clinicians have the full picture of their patients in real-time.
In this session, speakers will explain the scope and purpose of HL7's Certification program. The speakers will discuss the steps to certification and the HL7 courses that will help in the preparation for these exams. Participants will also hear about the credentialing program to be launched by HL7 next year.
HL7 membership offers valuable resources and services for healthcare providers, government stakeholders, payers, pharmaceutical companies, vendors/suppliers, and consulting firms.
HL7's mission is to provide standards that empower global health data interoperability. Our vision is a world where everyone can securely access and use the right health data when and where they need it.
This mission and vision drive our education and training programs to provide knowledge and support to the global healthcare industry through successful implementation of HL7 standards including Version 2 (V2), Version 3 (V3), Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®), and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®).
HL7 offers certification and proficiency testing to assess the knowledge and proficiency of its most frequently used health information technology (HIT) standards. Download your free path to certification guide by filling out the form on the right side.
HL7 certification helps professionals achieve industry-recognized levels of proficiency and expertise. Increase your career opportunities and stand out from the crowd by becoming HL7 certified.
The healthcare information technology industry is complex. As an employer, you need a quality team dedicated to solving today's interoperability challenges. Hiring an HL7-certified professional gives you confidence in the individual's specialized knowledge and skills. These experts demonstrate a commitment to excellence required to address the rapidly evolving field of healthcare.
HL7 and its members provide a framework (and related standards) for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information. These standards define how information is packaged and communicated from one party to another, setting the language, structure, and data types required for seamless integration between systems. HL7 standards support clinical practice and the management, delivery, and evaluation of health services, and are recognized as the most commonly used in the world.
To support those developing and implementing HL7 standards, we have curated a fantastic collection of tools and resources to support their efforts.
Among those is our library of case studies, ebooks, white papers, and podcasts illustrating how HIT professionals are using HL7 standards to improve healthcare.
